Product Information

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Format: DRM Protected ePubVendor: VintagePublication Date: 2017

ISBN: 9780385542838ISBN-13: 9780385542838

Publisher's Description

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From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society.

"No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" (Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)

Editorial Reviews

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"No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has. . . . The results are little short of astonishing." Edmund S. Morgan, The New York Review of Books

"The best and most thorough analysis of the Declaration ever written." David Brion Davis, The New York Times Book Review